Sgt. Steven Lee, who says he went undercover as part of an Internal Affairs Bureau probe of the 109th Precinct, filed a $35 million notice of claim Wednesday accusing police brass of hushing up the scope of the scandal.

Advertisement

Two cops, Lt. Robert Sung and Detective Yatyu Yam, were arrested in the case, and four others were placed on modified duty.

Investigators accused Sung and Yam of taking payments from karaoke bar managers in exchange for quashing arrests and tipping them off about police raids.

Lee, who's represented by lawyer Eric Sanders, contends that the scandal involved many more police officers, including high-ranking cops.

Lt. Robert Sung and Detective Yatyu Yam were taking bribes from this club in Flushing in exchange for quashing drug arrests and giving warnings of police raids on the club. (Richard Harbus/for New York Daily News)

His client was pulled into the investigation in 2014, after Sung told him he wanted to have the precinct's then-commanding officer Thomas Conforti, falsely accused of raping a woman from a brothel, court papers allege.

Sung had a mind to set up the frame-job to "protect his bribe receiving rackets from department scrutiny," the documents say.

It would also be a favor to a Queens nightclub owner named Jimmy Li, who he said paid bribes to cops and was friends with then-commissioner Bill Bratton, according to the notice.

Lee said he recorded video and audio of more corruption in 2015, but his handlers told him to focus on Sung. He was told many of his recordings wound up unreadable because of a "malfunction," he alleges.

Lt. Robert Sung, who was fired for refusing to participate in the IAB probe, pleaded guilty to attempted official misconduct in September. (NYPD)

When Lee questioned the integrity of the probe, Bratton and other brass "subjected him to numerous bogus internal investigations" and kept him from promotions, he said.

Li declined to comment, and attempts to reach Bratton were unsuccessful. The NYPD declined comment, referring all questions to the city's law department.

Sung and Yam dodged jail time, receiving conditional discharges for their roles in the scandal.

Yam, who police sources said resigned, pleaded guilty to obstruction of government administration in July. Sung, who was fired for refusing to participate in the IAB probe, pleaded guilty to attempted official misconduct in September.